Labels in Croton Harmon High School

The town that I lived in for high school was a very small suburb of the New York City.  The city was only a half hour away, and I spent a lot of time there.  The city is crazy, and filled with so many different people everywhere you look.  Well only a half hour away in Croton-on-Hudson NY, the Croton Harmon High School is entirely different.  Rather than seeing many people all interacting, you see small groups that keep secluded.  There were the few exceptions who either did not belong to a group, or those who did but still branched out to others, but for the most part, we would keep very secluded.  I was one of the kids who reached out to other groups, but "label" that I had was a "theatre kid".  I was also considered a problem,.  I kept fighting for Croton Harmon High School to be even better than it currently is.  I would argue that we need to spend less of frivolous things, and put that money towards, say, a better arts program.  This gained me the label of being "anti-school spirited".  In actuality I cared greatly about the school, but felt that it could, and should be better than it was.  But those are the labels that I gained, and even though I branched out to other groups of friends, some groups would have nothing to do with me because of my anti-school spirit label.  I would argue that I care greatly, and just want there to be improvements, but due to the label, they would hear none of it.  I was not the only person to hit road blocks due to my labial, manny were.  But the separation of groups by these labels is very real, and very bad.  High school would be a much better place if people let go of those labels.